Technology

The timing of Facebook’s controversy over its dating app probably couldn’t be much worse as CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares for a European trip that was aimed at rebuilding trust in the company. Zuckerberg is scheduled to participate in the annual Munich Security Conference that begins February 14 and attracts a …

In 2005, Ali Dixon, then a final-year student at the University of Bristol, founded fabless semiconductor company XMOS alongside former CEO of Oxford Semiconductor James Foster, former Inmos chief architect David May, Hitech Mehta of Acacia Capital Partners, and Noel Hurley. With seed funding from the University of Bristol enterprise …

Nintendo is going to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show, according to the group that organizes the event. The Entertainment Software Association issued a press release today that claims Nintendo, among others, will have a presence at the annual industry gathering. Here’s how the release reads: “Several leading …

Following the withdrawals of multiple major companies from MWC 2020, the GSMA is reconsidering whether the show will be cancelled or postponed until spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. The deliberations are continuing as both exhibiting and attending companies bow out one by one from the event, most recently including …

(Reuters) — Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur whose unlikely White House bid evolved into a serious campaign thanks to grassroots enthusiasm, pulled out of the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday after New Hampshire delivered him a second straight poor showing. Yang, 45, who ran for president despite having no political background, surprised …

At its Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2020 event today, the South Korean tech giant announced the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra, successors to the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and Galaxy S10+. The company also announced the Galaxy Z Flip, but we’re just focusing on the main three. These …

Four out of ten enterprises report that they’re using Kubernetes, the open-source container-orchestration framework for automating app deployment, scaling, and management, in production environments. But challenges like management complexity, time-to-deploy, and unforeseen bugs threaten to diminish the productivity gains. That’s why former Apple senior manager Matt Provo in 2015 cofounded …

Intel became the latest tech company to drop out of the Mobile World Congress event coming up in Barcelona, out of fears about the spread of the coronavirus. “The safety and wellbeing of all our employees and partners is our top priority, and we have withdrawn from this year’s Mobile …

The White House’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 includes sizable increases in federal funding for AI and quantum computing projects. All told, the overall increase in federal R&D funding is 6% compared to fiscal year 2020, reaching $ 142.2 billion. Although much of the funding is aimed at R&D …